Word: cfia
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Currently on a year-long leave from his country's foreign services as a fellow at the Center for International Affairs (CFIA), he speaks with passion about an area of the world--Asia--where he has spent much of his adult life. His career beginning in 1961. Oberg was assigned, fresh out of law school, to the Swedish mission in Jakarta. He then moved on to Thailand but returned home in 1965 to take charge of the Asian affairs bureau in Stockholm. For the next five years, Oberg helped mediate between the United States and Hanoi. In 1970, he opened...
...group, the University Consortium for Research on North America, consists of professors and graduate students from Harvard. Brandeis, and Tufts' Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy and operates out of Harvard's Center for International Affairs (CFIA...
...Canada has largely been ignored by Americans in the past," said Samuel P. Huntington, Thomson Professor of Government and director of the CFIA. "That's one of the reasons we got the consortium together," he added...
...CFIA also has successful fellows program that is similar to HIID's but goes beyond the Third World. The emphasis of both these projects is on training. As Perkins says, "our fellows, will go back home and probably take over the program we help put in place. One of the greatest services we can render is to assure developing nations have competent public servants...
...Unlike CFIA and most other international centers at Harvard. HIID has no endowment. Most of the financing it gets comes from the government of a country where it is undertaking a project "At HIID, we have services to offer. If we do a good job, people will pay for it. You can build from there and expand." Perkins says...